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by Furiosity 2564 days ago
I've been constantly logged in to IRC at home since 2002 or so. I am active nearly every day.

At work most of the coordination between programmers is via IRC--even though we're all in the same room.

So yeah, IRC is still used.

Anecdotally the population of some popular channels on freenode that I frequent has never been higher.